1r AENEÆ DE PICOLOMINIBUS | SENENSIS EPSICOPI | postea | PII PAPÆ SECVNDI | Tractatus | de | Ortu Gothorum
„AENEAE EPISCOPI SENENSIS DE ORTV GO | THORVM OPVS“
„Johanni de Caruaiali [sic] Sacrosanctae Romanae Ec | clesiae Diacono Cardinali doctissimo et optimo patri | domino suo Aeneas episcopus senensis Salutem Plurimam dicit “
„Et si haec quae de illis ipsis | scribuntur aut referuntur magna videntur ea non | tantum ad illorum laudem quantum [sic] ad eorum qui | vicerunt gloriam exponat“
FINIS de GOTHIS
The cover of the manuscript reads PIVS II DE ORTV GOTHORVM, possibly in the hand of the scribe. Fol. 1v is left blank. There are no book or chapter divisions.
Written in one column throughout; 41 to 43 lines per page.
Size of written area: 185 mm x 113 mm.
Written in one hand by Bertel Bartholin, who signed his name on the bottom right corner of fol. 1r as "Bartolus Bartholinus Casp. F.".
Marginal annotations by the scribe throughout, mostly names of important places and people. Few other marginal annotations by other hands.
Written before 1690, possibly in Denmark, based on the identification of the scribe. Kålund (Katalog) provides the date: c. 1700 .